3 February 2010
Anthony Green (b. 1984) is the recent winner of the 2nd Annual Ossia New Music Ensemble International Composition Prize,
a recent resident of the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska City, a fellow at the Summer Institute for Contemporary
Performance Practice 2009 at New England Conservatory in Boston, and a member of Mu Phi Epsilon. He is an active composer,
pianist, and educator, privately teaching composition, theory, music history, and piano, as well as teaching music technology
courses at CU Boulder.
Upcoming Events:
9 February 2010 ~
Dame Evelyn Glennie and Philip Smith to perform "Prometheus Rapture: Seven Legends for Snare
Drum and Orchestra" by Sean Beeson, piano reduction by Anthony Green. Concert will take place in
the Laeizshalle, GroBer Saal, in the the Elbphilarmonie, Hamburg, Germany, at 8PM.
18 February 2010 ~
Anthony Green to accompany Ms. Sarah Wilson, percussionist, on her Senior Recital. Works accompanied by
me include Ralph Vaughn Williams's Concerto Accademico, George Hamilton Greene's Log Cabin Blues,
and an arrangement of Claude Debussy's Claire de Lune for vibraphone and piano. Recital to be held
at the Chamber Hall, University of Colorado at Boulder, at 7:30 PM.
27 February 2010 ~
Anthony Green to play piano in a multimedia show by Hunter Ewen entitled, Hullo, my name is Lily
Foster. Show will be held in the Blackbox Theater, basement of the ATLAS building, University
of Colorado at Boulder, at 7:30PM
19 March 2010 ~
Dame Evelyn Glennie and Philip Smith to perform "Prometheus Rapture: Seven Legends for Snare
Drum and Orchestra" by Sean Beeson, piano reduction by Anthony Green. Concert will take place at
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, UK, at 7:30PM
26 and 27 March 2010 ~
Performance of Chance for String Quartet, part of a concert entitled, Mirrors
of the Soul, presented by The Orchestra Unleashed. Concert to be held at
El Portal Theatre, in North Hollywood, CA, at 7:30PM.
14 April 2010 ~
Premiere performance of The Gettysburg Address, a new work for soprano, clarinet/bass clarinet, cello,
percussion, and piano, by the Playground Ensemble. This performances is made possible through a
commission from their 3rd Annual Colorado Composers Contest (CoCoCo), and will take place at Grusin
Hall, University of Colorado at Boulder, at 7:30 PM
18 April 2010 ~
Anthony Green to accompany Ms. Yael Handelmann in a song recital, featuring works by
Argov, Green, Faure, Purcell, Ravel, Schubert, and Ullman. Concert will be held in Detroit,
Michigan. Venue and time TBA.
26 April 2010 ~
Scintillation II to be performed at the IC[CM] 2010 (International Conference for
Contemporary Music) to be held in A Corruna, Spain. Performance by members of the
Grupo Instrumental Siglo/Florian Vlashi, held at Paranymph Hall of the Rectorate of the
University of A Corruna, at 8:30 PM.
14 May 2010 ~
Dame Evelyn Glennie and Philip Smith to perform "Prometheus Rapture: Seven Legends for Snare
Drum and Orchestra" by Sean Beeson, piano reduction by Anthony Green. Concert will take place at
Emirates Palace in the Abu Dhabi Theater,at 7PM
30 May 2010 ~
Second performance of The Gettysburg Address, a new work for soprano, clarinet/bass clarinet, cello,
percussion, and piano, by the Playground Ensemble. This performances is made possible through a
commission from their 3rd Annual Colorado Composers Contest (CoCoCo), and will take place at Denver
University’s Lamont School of Music at 7:30 PM
TBD/A Performances/Projects ~
~ Performance of a new work for Euphonium/Tuba Quartet at CU Boulder (2010)
~ Performance of Septagon for flute, clarinet, and piano, in New York (2010?)
~ Performance of new works for elementary school orchestra in California (2010)
~ Performance of 3 Vignettes of Job, a multimedia project for various ensembles, dance, live and pre-made
video, and various manifestations of electronics. This performance is funded by an Atlas Fellowship at CU
Boulder (2011, Atlas Blackbox Theater)
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Select Past Events:
~ PENDULUM NEW MUSIC: Battery, mvt. II from String Quartet No. 1 premiered by the Tesla
String Quartet (January 2010)
~What almost happened (electronic) presented at Zeppelin 2009 - Sounds of Power/Listening
of Fear, in Barcelona, Spain (December 2009)
~ "Prometheus Rapture: Seven Legends for Snare Drum and Orchestra" by Sean Beeson, orchestral
reduction by Anthony Green, premiered by Dame Evelyn Glennie and Philip Smith (November 2009)
~ Performance of "Encomium" for sax quartet by the Flat Iron Saxes 4 (with guest Luiz Zuniga)
at Grusin Hall, Boulder, CO. Part of the Pendulum New Music series. (www.cu-pendulum.com;)
~ Performance of "Ahnungen" for solo clarinet by Guido Arbonelli, at the T. Serafin
Theater in Venice, Italy. (November 2009)
~ Anthony Green as acousmatician and vocal improvisation artist interpreting Mark Applebaum's work The
Metaphysics of Notation at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center (30 October 2009).
~ Performance of “Preludismus” for solo piano, as part of the George Crumb Festival at CU Boulder (11 Sept. 2009)
~ Performance of “Celestial Mechanics” by George Crumb, as part of the George Crumb Festival at CU Boulder
(9 Sept. 2009)
~ Performance of “G. Profundis” with Annabel Ibanez, as part of the 7th Annual Festival for Contemporary Music in
San Francisco, Brian Bice, artistic director (Aug. 2009)
~ Solo piano recitals in Providence, RI, playing works by Bach, Beethoven, Cage, Chopin, Haydn, Schubert,
and Schumann, (August, June, and November 2009)
~ Residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, Nebraska. Included
a public presentation for home-schooled children entitled, “How to listen to music” (Jul. - Aug. 2009)
~ Performance of “Chance” at Symphony Space in New York by the Zukofsky Quartet. Performance a part
of the ACA Summer New Music Festival 2009 (June 2009)
~ Performance of “Etude II: Fugue” by Elaine Rombola, as part of the Summer Institute for Contemporary
Performance Practice 2009, Stephen Drury, artistic director (June 2009)
~ Vocal recital with Ms. Yael Handelman, soprano, and Anthony Green, piano. Performed works by Purcell,
Schubert, Faure, Ravel, Ulman, Argov, Einstein, and Green (May 2009)
~ Performance of “Earned” for double String Quartet in Providence and Boston by the Providence String
Quartet, and their fellowship quartet. Performance made possible by a grant from the Argosy Foundation (May 2009)
~ Performance of “Chance” by the Playground Ensemble at the King Center in Denver, CO. Performance
made possible by the Playground Ensemble’s Colorado Composers Contest (CoCoCo) (April 2009)
~ Performance of “3 Groups” by the Ossia New Music Ensemble at Kilbourn Hall, Eastman
School of Music, Rochester, NY. Performance made possible by their Annual International
Composition Prize (March 2009)
~ Performance of “Encomium” by the Flatiron Saxes 4 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (February 2009)